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November 01 2021

Ending the Cold War and Entering a New Era: Perspectives on To Build a Better World

Philip Zelikow,

Philip Zelikow

Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the University of Virginia.

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Condoleezza Rice,

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and formerly served as U.S. secretary of state and U.S. national security adviser.

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Kristina Spohr,

Kristina Spohr

Kristina Spohr is a professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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James Goldgeier,

James Goldgeier

James Goldgeier is a professor of international relations and formerly served as dean of the School of International Service at American University.

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Vojtech Mastny

Vojtech Mastny

Vojtech Mastny is an independent scholar and was the founding director of the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security.

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Author and Article Information

Philip Zelikow

Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the University of Virginia.

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and formerly served as U.S. secretary of state and U.S. national security adviser.

Kristina Spohr

Kristina Spohr is a professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

James Goldgeier

James Goldgeier is a professor of international relations and formerly served as dean of the School of International Service at American University.

Vojtech Mastny

Vojtech Mastny is an independent scholar and was the founding director of the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security.

Online ISSN: 1531-3298

Print ISSN: 1520-3972

© 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2021

by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Journal of Cold War Studies (2021) 23 (4): 181–210.

https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_c_01029

Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth. New York: Twelve, 2019. 510 pp. $35.00.

In 1989 both Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice entered U.S. government service as members of the National Security Council staff of newly elected President George H. W. Bush. In 1995, they published a detailed account of what most scholars agree was the virtuoso international statecraft that expedited the unexpectedly swift and peaceful denouement of Europe's Cold War.^¹Germany Unified and Europe Transformed rapidly became a classic of Zeitgeschichte writing on contemporary history. Today, after three decades alternating between the corridors of power in Washington and the ivory towers of academe, these eminent scholar-diplomats bring a much wider perspective—both personal and historical—to the table. The result is a very distinctive book—one that offers, with equal insight, a view from without, exploiting...

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